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USB problems ........

I didn't mean to but I erased the filesystem off my USB drive and now I can't save files, mount , or reformat it to do any of the above ....... please I am new and I would like to be able to save files to it.

XTC46 may have it there................if you pulled it out without "dismounting" it first this can happen.

With the device physically detached, look in your hardware and see if the device is listed. If it is just uninstall it, reboot and plug it in again. Try the same with the device attached if that does not work.

Incidentally, some information on your OPERATING SYSTEM and hardware would help us to help you

If you cannot do someone any good: don't do them any harm....
As long as you did this to one of these, the least of my little ones............you did it unto Me.
What profiteth a man if he gains the entire World at the expense of his immortal soul?

While i forgot to say i erased the filesystem image ( instead of reformat ). Now when I use qtparted I use qtparted it freezes on the progress bar and then crashes. I then tried mkfs but it gives me ..............

mke2fs 1.38-WIP (09-May-2005)
mkfs.ext2: No such device or address while trying to determine filesystem size